The object is likely a 12-mile wide asteroid or comet from way, way out of town that just happens to be passing through our neighborhood, but you never ...

At 5.06pm UK time, a spacecraft is scheduled to launch on a journey which will take it 1.8 billion miles through our solar system, to the biggest planet Jupiter where it will study one of its many ...

The Voyager 1 probe has been playing the real-life version of this. Launched on September 5th, 1977, the spacecraft reached Neptune, the outer sentinel of the Solar System, over a decade later.

Once our Sun has become a red giant, Pluto and its cousins in the Kuiper Belt — plus Neptune’s moon Triton — may be the most valuable real estate in the solar system.

A giant planet 124 light years from Earth has yielded the strongest evidence yet that extraterrestrial life may be thriving beyond our solar system, astronomers claim. Observations by the James Webb ...

Quantz added that while ambitious, the 25 year timeframe he set himself for finding life outside the solar system is not "unrealistic." "There's no guarantee for success.

K2-18 b is part of the “sub-Neptune” class of planets, with a diameter greater than Earth’s but less than that of Neptune, our solar system’s smallest gas planet. Advertisement ...

The hunt for signs of life in the atmospheres of planets outside the solar system orbiting distant stars — exoplanets — is akin to hunting for a needle in a cosmic haystack.

We can also throw in the clouds of Venus or the possibly salt-rich ocean beneath the heart of Pluto as places that people are looking into for alien life. Perhaps, in the Solar System, it's just ...

Moons of Saturn. Tiny Enceladus is the most reflective object in the solar system. Plumes of mist emanating from the outer shell freeze and fall back to the surface, keeping it snowy white.

LONDON — Astronomers have found possible chemical signs of life on a distant planet outside our solar system, though they caution more work is needed to confirm their findings. The research, led ...

In a striking new finding, astronomers have uncovered what they say is the strongest evidence yet of life existing beyond our solar system. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers from ...